Smirking Face emoji
Type :smirk: · #40 most-used emoji · Smileys & emotion
Unicode name Smirking Face · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What 😏 means
The smirk knows something. Flirtatious, self-satisfied or conspiratorial depending on aim; it never reads neutral, so do not deploy it casually at coworkers.
If you are trying to read into it
The smirk is the emoji people search about most, and it genuinely is suggestive more often than not. It carries knowing, teasing, or flirtation depending on the sentence it follows, and it can mean mild smugness with no romantic content at all. The honest read: it is deliberately ambiguous, and senders usually know that. If you cannot tell which one it is, the ambiguity was the point.
How to type 😏 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :smir
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 😏 from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:smirk: :smirking::smirking_face: Emoticon trigger
Typing :j followed by a
space becomes 😏 automatically.
😏 in HTML, CSS and code
Smirking Face is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F60F
- HTML
- 😏
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F60F}'
- CSS content
- "\1F60F"
- Python
- '\U0001F60F'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%98%8F
Related emojis
:wink: 😘 :blowing_a_kiss: 😗 :kissing: 😚 :kissing_closed_eyes: 😙 :kissing_face_with_smiling_eyes: 😐️ :neutral: 🙄 :rolling_eyes: 😎 :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: 😡 :pout: 😠 :angry: All smileys & emotion shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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